I don't know if they're conflating rendering with display or just assuming those GPU are at max TDP 24/7, but they're way off on actual energy consumption.
There seems to be a lot of recent articles attacking datacenters, particularly those involved in LLM "ai" work. This feels like one of those articles.
I'm not saying we shouldn't keep them in check, but I also don't like being manipulated by "grass roots initiative" marketing companies, particularly on Lemmy.
Using the max power use of a video card to math this is ridiculous. It's not at full TDP pushing this content. They aren't playing max FPS 3D raytraced gaming, they're playing videos.
Under normal circumstances I wouldn't expect any privacy between processes on a desktop OS under the same UID.
If you use Chrome's password manager on Windows your password database is unlocked with your password upon login and is available to every process you run.
There's only so much you can do, as an app, to protect against OS deficiencies.
The desktop app on Windows is a sacrifice of security for convenience.
"about 10 years ago" in our house 🤣
I feel like this article took a quick turn from "Bing went down" to "Google bad".
I am glad more people realize who's actually behind DDG and such.
LTT talked about this a while back.. it's because the GPU companies don't want modular GPUs.
How about enforcing the existing laws?
Until they stop letting him screw with the sound track I'm done with Christopher Nolan movies.
Relying on cultural hot topics rather than real character building killed this show. The spore drive was also kinda "out there" though interesting. I wish the best for the cast.
That's what they said about Internet Explorer right up until the moment where Microsoft wanted everyone to switch to Edge. Not only could you suddenly uninstall it, but it even started uninstalling itself!
Funny how that happens
There are other protocols on the internet you know..
More likely avoiding a smackdown from the EU